1960 U.S. Presidential / Vice-Presidential Election Results:
If only 4429 of the 2,377,846 Illinois voters and 11,046 of the 1,385,415 New Jersey voters who voted for Kennedy voted for Nixon instead, Nixon would have won.
Incumbent President Richard Nixon won reelection in the 1972 presidential election defeating George McGovern. In the 1972 presidential election Richard Nixon received 520 electoral votes and George McGovern received 17 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Nixon 47,169,911 and McGovern 29,170,383.
In the 1960 Presidential election, John F Kennedy (D-MA) won 303 electoral votes. Richard M Nixon (R-CA) won 219 electoral votes. Harry F Bryd (I-VA) won 15 electoral votes.
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Electoral college: 303 Kennedy, 219 Nixon.
Kennedy won the Democratic nomination on the first ballot over Johnson with a Convention vote of 806 to 409. Of course, they ran together in the presidential election.
Kenndey - 303 Nixon - 219
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In the 1960 U.S. presidential election, U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy (D-MA) beat incumbent Vice President Richard M. Nixon (R-CA) 303 to 219, with 15 uncommitted electors giving their votes to Harry F. Byrd.
Richard Nixon. One of the important events in the election was the first TV debate between Nixon and Kennedy. Nixon looked dead on TV and Kennedy looked young and smart. It gave him the election.
No. John F. Kennedy won the 1960 presidential election defeating Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon won the 1968 presidential election defeating Hubert Humphrey. Incumbent President Richard Nixon won reelection in the 1972 presidential election defeating George McGovern.
It was Richard Nixon who was standing against Kennedy and not Eishenhower in the year 1960.
Vice President Richard Nixon
He beat W. Lee "Pappy" O'daniel and Coke Stevenson for the democratic senate primary in 1949, then went on to defeat the Republican candidate in the General Election.. In the 1964 Presidential election, he beat out Barry Goldwater. He lost the race for the senate to W. Lee Pappy O'Daniel in 1941, the only time anyone ever defeated him in an election.
Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater deferred when it came to the fundamental belief in civil rights. In the 1964 election, Johnson beat Goldwater by a large margin.
Nixon ran three times, in 1960, 1968 and 1972. After losing a close election in 1960, he came back to win in 1968 and 1972.
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Johnson took over as President after Kennedy was assassinated. Then in 1964 the Democratic Party's Johnson and running mate Humphrey beat Goldwater and his running mate William Miller who were the Republican nominees.
The Man to Beat Jack Johnson was created in 1910.
U. S. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts narrowly beat the incumbent Vice President, Richard M. Nixon.